San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-06-24
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municipal thieves and swindling bank
officials.
Ten cents TO the French crown jewels
that his eminence, the pope, does not
scare worth cent over that dispatch
from New York, concerning the Nc
Glynn parade.
liz Mayor Hewitt will solidly oppose
the dumping of European paupers in
American soil, 1t will end. The great
dumping ground is in his own city.
The New York Star pronounces Gen.
Fsirchild the champion fool. The Star
means fool killer, and Cleveland Is the
party he has killed off.
The Jefferson JImplecute pronounces
Cleveland demagOgue for not sticking
TO his flag order. Had he remained firm
in demanding the return the JimpliGute
would have spelled 1t demigod.
LAREDO does not enjoy cayote sere-
made. When the city ours, burrOs, pea
cocks and BOOSTERS chimed In the deni-
zens of the smelter city thought orea-
ton had slipped her mornings.
The Houston Post regards the failure
OF the city 10 enter the drill as loss to
San Antonio. Very likely, but she will
worry through.
FRANCE, prompted by true feeling Of
self-respect as republic, will tolerate
no residents in her realm who belong to
anti-FrenCh societies abroad. The re-
public will not be despised OF monarch
lists.
The Houston ladies had charge OF the
arrangements for the press banquet yes
terday, and that accounts for the success
Of the undertaking. They understand
the short cut to masculine favor by the
gastrOmOniC lane.
THOSE who underrate the staying and
the paying and the praying qualities.
the fighting and the cussing qualities Of
the prOhibitiOnsts in this amendment
fight, are going to get left.
TEXAS may have her drouths and
when they come rs they did this spring
they are not by any means desirable;
but, as TO taking drouth or Minnesota
hOppers Texas will content herself with
drOuth. She still has sense enough TO
chose the least of two evils.
The rains have come most timely in
the lower Mississippi valley. They have
washed the salty deposit of the over
flowing gulf waves from the rice stalks
and there is Il re 4sOnaOle hope that the
crop has not been materially injured.
The West Point cadets will adopt
some distinctive badge or decoration,
by which army officers who have gradu-
ated from the national military aCade-
my may be ut once distinguished from
those who have entered the army from
the walks of civil life. The proposed
mark is a bronze button marked u. 5 NJ
N hnffnn hnla nf bn lafr
lapel of the coat.
The COrsicana Courier thinks that the
"LOw-dOwn niger" and the "BO-
Dutch" articles OF the Waco Advance
killed that daily. No one mourns the
demise, not even the prOhiOItIOnists.
rhe mud mixer squirted its foulness on
friends and foes aud both would rejoice
TO see it gather up its coat tails in a halo
OF tine-cut glory and depart, muck
strangled in Its own filth.
The Uvalde News SAYS with equal
truth and point that the prohibitiOnlsts
are very glib in referring to what the
governors OF prohibition states say con-
corning prohibition, but they fight very
shy of revenue returns which tell very
different story from the eX parte state
ments OF interested prohibition officers.
NE hubNlh huu tue 1lOublOb
Light Infantry are generally supposed
to have the poles which will reach the
enCAmpment persimmOn. The Houston
Light Guards are playing a little game
of brag for cheap glory, claiming to
have put up q better drill by twenty
five points than ever before. The press
banquet and reception was all that was
expected Gov. Ross and Gen. Stanley
were among the orators.
STATE Press in Galveston News, apollo
ViZing for lack OF biblical accuracy on
Crantill's part, sends GOliah sporting
around David. Was not the boot on the
other foot? Our old bible represented
GOlsh as the heavy weight around
whom the lad David mOnkeyed with
his sling and stones.
WHATEVER Germany does France will
not be very far behind, in all that per
tains 10 the military strengthening of
the nation. War Minister FerrOn's bill
for the Increase of the army by the addi-
tiOn OF eighteen full infantry regiments
and four cavalry regiments will just
about bring the addition up to the in
crease recently made by Bismark in the
German army. These two nations are
watching each other like two prize
fighters in the ring, and when the bottle
holders give them the signal each will
leap from his corner like a oatapult.
The selection OF site for the city hall
is now the one thing which, with prOhi-
bitiOn, divides the attention OF the Citi-
Gems Of this baliwiCk. The plaZas seem
to haYe decidedly the best of the argu-
ment, SO far as can he asCertained by a
cursOry canvas OF public sentiment. An
ornamental building would add much to
their appearance.
The FlOresviIle Chronicle has a cores
pOndent who signs himself Z. L. Trial
Trial has complained that the Chronicle
has gaTbled his previous cOmmuniCa-
tiOns and wants this one printed ''as it
is wrote" The Chronicle has followed
copy, instead of licking Trials TRADES
into shape as heretofore, and the result
Is mixture to which no other jour
nal in Texas would devote q column
and half of its space. 1t is a great
trial tn the readers, greater trial to the
cOmpOsitOrs and the greatest trial OF all
to the party that is tried by such aGvO-
Gates.
The flag quietus has come until con-
gress meets. Then look out for some
right hand supporter Of this soft headed
administration to move the return Of the
confederate emblems to the states from
whose troops they were captured. They
will not 90, all the same. The lost cause
which these flags represented can not be
re-discOvered in their blOOd-stained
folds, which reveal only the deathless
courage OF their defenders. This courage
does not desire any surrender at this
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